The boys glanced wonderingly at each other and from somewhere fell the comment: "English cowboy! Well, if that ain't curious." Another mental note to be preserved for the diary: "Cowboy.

Now what might a cowboy be?
Perhaps--" But the viscount perceived that some more questions were about to be asked; so he worked his way out of the crowd, released the sleeve, put on the coat and wandered away to seek a humble and obscure lodging.

He found it and went to bed and was soon asleep.
In the morning, he examined his clothes.

They were rather assertive, it seemed to him, but they were new and clean, at any rate.

There was considerable property in the pockets.